The Pittsburg High School tennis squad qualified its No. 2 singles player and its No. 1 doubles team into the Class 4A state tournament.

“All of the team made it into Friday’s matches,” Pittsburg head coach John Seal said. “We were one of only three teams to have everybody there. We played great on Thursday but Friday did not produce enough wins to get more than two spots in. This is a fairly high finish for Pittsburg in regional tennis. We just need to keep building.”

Brandon Smith placed third and qualified for state in No. 2 singles, edging his overall record this season to 30-2. He lost 6-1, 6-2 to Payton Hays of Parsons in the semifinals but recovered to defeat Ty Schabel of Independence 6-3, 6-4 to claim third place. Seal said that Smith played great against Schabel.

Sean Perkins and Jake Cloninger placed fourth in No. 1 doubles, losing to Gavin Webster and Tyler Posch of Independence in the semis and Quinton Hershey and Josh Marshall of Coffeyville in the third-place match. Perkins and Cloninger enter state play with a 22-11 overall record.

Smith, Perkins and Cloninger all qualify for state in their senior years. State play for Class 4A begins Friday in Topeka at the Kossover Tennis Facility, hosted by Topeka Hayden. Play runs through Saturday.

St. Mary's Colgan senior Austin Barone won his first individual title Thursday at the Girard Invitational, continuing a week of first individual titles for Colgan golfers after Michael Hudiburg won his first earlier in the week at the Riverton Invitational.

"We have had back-to-back first career victories for Michael and Austin," Colgan head coach Luke Wachter said. "It's a great thing for these two seniors."

Barone shot 37 on the front and 40 on the back nine, edging out freshman teammate Bailey Beykirch by one stroke because Beykirch shot 41 on the back nine after matching Barone's 37 on the front nine. Hudiburg finished fifth with an 81 and Taylor Thomas placed eighth with his 89. William Mitchelson and David Misasi gave Colgan six golfers in the top 12; Mitchelson shot 92 for 11th and Misasi tied with Klay O'Brien of Girard for 12th, both players shooting 94. Colgan won the team title, its 325 a lower score by 21 than second-place Caney Valley.

Judd Belew led Frontenac with his seventh-place 89 and O'Brien paced host Girard.

The Southeast Lancers split a Crawford-Neosho-Cherokee League softball doubleheader Thursday night with Baxter Springs, losing the first game 6-1 and winning the second 4-3.

In the second game, Southeast had a strong first inning, scoring three runs on a two-run home run by Chloe Biancarelli and a sacrifice bunt by Tessa Robin. Tori Colvin led off the game with a single and made her way home on Robin's bunt. Amy Martin reached on an error and scored on the Biancarelli homer. Baxter scored one in the first, one in the second and one in the third; the game remained deadlocked until the bottom of the sixth when the Lancers won in dramatic fashion to fashion a split with the Lions.

In that decisive sixth inning, Martin sparked the game-winning rally with a leadoff triple. Biancarelli drove in Martin with a sacrifice rather than a two-run home run. In the seventh, Baxter had Kayla McCully reach on a double but Southeast freshman pitcher Olivia Powell and the Lancer defense behind her buckled down and left McCully stranded at second after three fly ball outs. Rylie Dainty made a diving catch for the game's final out.

In the first game, Southeast plated its only run in the second. Alex Yeoman led off with a double to left center and later scored on a Baxter error.

Girard sophomore Timbrelee McNair tied a girls low score record with a 71 in the first round of a Midwest Junior Golf Tour event last Saturday at Liberty Hills Country Club in Liberty, Mo. Emily Powers, from Quincy, Ill., also shot a 71 in 2006.

McNair, a record-breaking standout in her two years so far at Girard, led 13 girls in the 14-18 division. The second and final round last Sunday was postponed due to inclement weather and has been rescheduled for Sunday.

Frontenac High School head coach Doug Barto will hold the 2012 Raider FUN-damental Youth Basketball Camp for boys and girls grades K-6 on June 4-7 (12-2:30 p.m.) at the FHS gym. Registration fee will be $30 before May 16 and $35 after May 17. This registration fee covers a T-shirt. The camp will emphasize individual fundamentals and feature contests, games and competitions. Younger campers will shoot on lower baskets. For more information, please contact Barto at dbarto@cox.net or 620-232-7327.